Field Superintendent - Construction jobs in Virginia Beach, VA

Job Type

Full-time

Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor's degree in construction-related curriculum or comparable construction field experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of field experience in the commercial construction industry as a supervisor.
• OSHA 30, First Aid/CPR Certified and Trained (mandatory)
• Procore Certification
• Desired Certifications: Forklift and Heavy Equipment
• Driver’s license

Benefits

401(k)/Matching

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Health savings account (HSA)

Paid time off (PTO)

Paid Holidays

Jury Duty/Military Leave

Bonus Plan

Profit Sharing Plan

Wellness Program

Referral Bonus

Training

Education Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement

CORE Value recognition

Company Sponsored Events

About Henley Construction

At Henley Construction, we continue expanding and bettering our team through growth and education as team members move forward in their personal careers and goals while being active participants in the company’s strategic plans and its client’s success. We provide exceptional client service while successfully and safely executing what we are hired to do. Our Core Values are key to the culture of our company: Relationships, Growth, Solutions, and Perspective all contribute to growing our team, our clients, and the business of construction. Henley serves a diverse range of customers including educational, community, industrial, and private clients in Maryland and Northern Virginia.

Superintendent Job Description

Superintendents coordinate and manage all day-to-day onsite construction activities, ensure safety requirements are always met, quality is maintained, and schedules are created, tracked, and adhered to. Superintendents work with project teams including Project Managers, Project Engineers, Assistant Superintendents, Foreman, Field Personnel, and other office departments. The Superintendent is the main point of contact on-site (unless a Senior Superintendent is present) and is responsible for the overall project.

Looking for a positive “can do” attitude, a strong drive to achieve results, and a strong work ethic.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

Superintendents complete organizational and project management responsibilities to effectively lead the construction team and ensure they have all the resources they need. They have the following duties:

• Understanding of Henley's Safety program and OSHA requirements to effectively control and manage safety at the job site.
• Create a project-specific safety plan, highlighting key or unique hazards introduced by site conditions or work methods.
• Define safety expectations by providing mandatory safety orientations for every individual on site.
• Daily walks with safety inspections, correction of potential and/or observed issues with clarification of safety expectations.
• Conduct, distribute, and document Toolbox talks weekly.
• Maintain all logs within Procore: Daily log for job site's operations, SDS/Haz com sheets, and visitor logs in the onsite office, reporting to management and client as necessary.
• Maintain overall job site cleanliness and staging area organization. Enforce composite crews' job site clean-up daily. Make clean job sites our culture.
• Project Quality Control through general inspections and daily walkthroughs for verification, communication, and documentation.
• Communicate all quality expectations with trade foremen prior to installation.
• Constant verification of material installation.
• Maintain a rolling punch list defining final quality expectations to ensure on-time completion.
• Manage a team of laborers, carpenters, etc. for self-performed work which may include demolition, excavation, concrete, masonry, rough carpentry, painting, and specialties, including work schedules, project progress, and resource allocation.
• Manage a team of trade contractors to include work schedules, pull planning, project progress, resource allocation, and running/documenting foremen’s meetings.
• Utilize efficiencies to maximize labor hours and materials budgets.
• Collaborate and build strong, positive relationships with Owners, Architects, Project Managers, and Subcontractors.
• Possess good problem-solving and communication skills along with an understanding of how risk is managed as it relates to the project and company.
• Coordinate materials and equipment delivery with the Henley office, vendors, and suppliers.
• Develop and implement a detailed project schedule utilizing the Project Manager’s original baseline overview.
• Develop and implement site utilization plan(s) for constructability, phasing options, temporary protection requirements, site logistics, traffic patterns, equipment locations, storage, staging, and any other project-specific issues.

Essential Characteristics

• Excellent Communication

Arrange pre-installation coordination meetings for all work areas that involve overlapping work by multiple trade contractors. Discuss quality expectations with trade foremen prior to installation (pre-bid, post-bid, and preinstallation meetings).

• Problem-Solving Skills

When conflicts and disputes arise during the project, focus all parties on developing mutually acceptable solutions aligned with the contractual agreements.

• Experience

Review conceptual, schematic, and design developments for constructability, phasing options, temporary protection requirements, site logistics, and other field construction issues. Establish project site expectations for safety, quality, unforeseen conditions, housekeeping, and general conduct. Plan and coordinate site logistics, including traffic patterns, equipment locations and storage and staging.

• Interpersonal Skills

Partner with Project Manager, Client, and trade contractors to develop a work plan for projects. Coordinate project team’s preparation for upcoming work through progress meetings. Plan and coordinate timely initiation, momentum, and completion of all trade contract work on the project site according to the project schedule.

• Safety

Create a project-specific safety program highlighting key or unique hazards introduced by site conditions or work methods and scheduled adjacencies. Develop and communicate a leadership approach for addressing hazards on the project. Define safety expectations by providing a safety orientation for every individual who enters the site. Address early offenses to clarify expectations and reinforce the commitment to safety, recognize and correct common work area hazards. Promptly report and investigate accidents and safety-related incidents, disciplining repeat, or extreme violations, up to and including, permanently removing individuals from the project site. Attend company-wide Safety meetings.

• Initiative

Arrange and coordinate timely permitting and required inspections to start and complete work. Prioritize and review critical submittals for dimensional control and constructability. Maintain a rolling punch list defining final quality expectations and ensuring completion.

• Resourcefulness

Oversee technical interpretation of construction documents and drawings, and recommend construction methods, and equipment as required. Assure consistency with contractual specifications and requirements for the project.

• Ability to Work Under Pressure

Continuously assess and analyze the project’s actual status against goals, develop contingency plans, and revise construction strategy as required.

• Professionalism & Commitment

Superintendents represent Henley at the project site every day work is being performed, by setting expectations, and responsibilities, and maintaining commitments. This commitment to quality helps maintain trust among project stakeholders, reduces errors, and sets us up for success in winning more work.

• Technology

Technology plays an increasingly important role in the construction industry; therefore, Superintendents need to be capable of learning new software and integrating it into their workflow.

• Delegating

Due to the far-reaching nature of the job of Superintendent, you need to be able to strategically delegate tasks, assess subordinates, and determine which team members are best suited to handle specific duties.

Promote Customer Relations

• Builds effective relationships with customers, design team, subcontractors, suppliers, and user groups that reflect and support company core values and meet or exceed the customer’s expectations.
• Participates in industry, client, and community relations to enhance company image when required.
• Makes presentations to proactively seek new business opportunities.

Culture, Leadership, and Employee Development

• Promotes our culture and communicates our vision and purpose through our Core Values.
• Serves as a role model, and leader and promotes professional behavior, personally and professionally.
• Participates in and supports operations training programs and commits to the development of project staff and self.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Have a good working knowledge of all project documents, including specifications, plans, submittals, subcontracts, shop drawings, and any other project-specific documents.
• Implement and enforce the company’s safety policies, and site-specific safety programs, and always promote a safety culture on the job site.
• Able to clearly communicate by verbal, written, or electronic means to all members of the project team.
• Demonstrate leadership skills and strategies for organizing all scopes, people, materials, tools, and equipment to manage the project successfully.
• Plan, direct, manage, oversee, and document all daily activities on the project site.
• Proficiency in electrical, mechanical, and structural systems.
• Implement, manage, and maintain a worker orientation program for all new workers on the project.
• Enforce the company’s public safety program ensuring the safety of all non-construction-related people.
• Advanced knowledge of OSHA requirements and how to successfully execute an OSHA site visit.
• Implement, maintain, and enforce the company’s quality control plan.
• Coordinate all required field inspections and maintain the inspection log.
• Perform, upload, and maintain all company documentation requirements including, but not limited to, daily job reports, daily photographs, daily manpower reports, toolbox talks, progress plans, labor reports, etc.
• Assist in weekly/bi-weekly coordination meetings.
• Review monthly pay applications for work in place in conjunction with the project manager.

Personal/Professional Relationships

• Always represent the company and yourself with a positive professional attitude.
• Must be able to work in harmony with all parties involved in the project.
• Actively promote the company’s growth and develop a program to aid in the mutual benefit of the company’s success and the employee’s long-term career with the company. Demonstrate the ability to clearly communicate with the project team, project owners, architects, engineers, and subcontractors to achieve positive results.
• Promote positive trade contractors relations by dealing professionally and fairly with all subcontractors and vendors.

Physical Demands/Working Conditions

• Willingness to travel based on in-market project location.
• Able to work in all elements of the outdoor environment which includes heat, cold, rain, snow, wind, etc.
• Able to access all areas of the job site including stairs, scaffolding, ladders, elevation changes, etc.
• Capable of working in physical positions that may include kneeling, sitting, standing, squatting, bending over, etc.
• Must be able to move, carry, or position items weighing up to 75 pounds.

Computer/Technology

• Proficient in the use of personal computers including iPad/tablet devices.
• Procore certification.
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office and related construction software.
• Willing to learn recent technologies with provided training.